Church Rooms
CHURCH ROOMS, ST JAMES'S STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1294920
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Church Rooms
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH ROOMS, ST JAMES'S STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1294920
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church Rooms
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH ROOMS, ST JAMES'S STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH ROOMS, ST JAMES'S STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- South Petherton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 43258 16880
Details
SOUTH PETHERTON CP ST JAMES'S STREET (West side, off) ST4316 7/159 Church Rooms formerly listed as Old School (Boys)) 19.4.61
GV II
Former Church School, now meeting rooms. Dated 1828. Ham stone rubble, ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof between stepped coped gables; brick chimney stacks to north gable. Two storeys, 2 bays. Plinth; chamfer-mullioned windows in chamfered recesses, of 3 lights, with horizontal-bar insert, no label; between upper windows an oval plaque inscribed 'Built by subscription 1828'. On north gable two 2-light windows at ground floor level, and from approach steps to north-east gate of the Church of SS Peter and Paul (q.v.) a plain basement doorway; modern casement window above. From south gable a wing wall with coping extends southwards, masking a lean-to building, with 2 boarded doors in cambered-arched doorways, and high in the south gable a 4-light mullioned window with gable vent over. Interior not seen. Built as the boys charity school and Sunday School; it was replaced by larger buildings in 1879. Much of the cost actually borne by the vicar, Henry Bond, and J.B.Edmonds, who provided also the site and the stone. (VCH, Vol III, 1974).
Listing NGR: ST4325816880
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 264244
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1974)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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